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Bringing together the soul-stirring vocals of Aotearoa’s most-awarded solo artist with a 50-piece professional orchestra, Bic ...
In my twenties, I was at a party talking to a guy I didn’t know. Mid-conversation this guy stops and goes, “You have autism, ...
Photographer Guy Coombes wears black so he doesn’t reflect any light on his subjects. With thanks to R.M.Williams.
An onlooker — that’s me — can sense the freedom. The students navigate the landscape of the strip without batting an eyelid, ...
Kneading sovereignty How did bread come to occupy such an immovable and essential place on the Māori plate?
Abstract works can ask that our shared reality of objects and legible forms be suspended for what is usually a nocturnal ...
Abigail Dell'Avo sits down with Matariki Bennett to discuss her debut poetry collection.
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Which begs the (endlessly repeated) question — why art? Why bother looking at locally curated shows of local artists when our foundational principles are being renegotiated, disassembled, demoralised?
Join Coastal Signs in popping the cork on their new Karangahape Road location (312 Karangahape Rd) on Wednesday 13 August at 6PM with a show of paintings from Maggie Friedman and Ammon Ngakuru that ...
Efficiency. Performance. Perfection. These sound like specs for a high-performance car, not the aspirations of a young writer. Yet in Auckland’s classrooms, they’re increasingly held up as the ...
There are sauces, and then there is mole — that dense, complex, enigmatic, labour-intensive substance that exists in seemingly infinite variations. It is not so much a condiment as it is a record of ...